Hello again everyone, nice to see I got more reactions from me having Blake replace Ruby for the duration of the Haunted Towers than I did for having Widow replace the first possessor.

No, I'm not bothered by it.

Anyway… About the Boo's, looking back on it I realized I never really explained on this but I'm trying to minimize the amount of Boo's in this story compared to the game- Which in Dark Moon majority of the Boo's kinda just devolved into a collectable, and it got worse for them in Mansion 3.

At least in Dark Moon they have some plot relevance, so I'm sorry, but like treasure team RWBY are NOT gonna spend however long it takes to find every arbitrarily hidden Boo in all the Mansions.

And yes people, I know Blake isn't gonna be as terrified of ghost's as Ruby (Well, save for an excited exception) but you know what, this was an idea I had and I'm gonna stick to it.

Also getting rid of the front gate key for this mansion… Anyone who has played the game can hopefully understand.

And now for something completely unrelated- I'm posting this on my Birthday, first time in two years I've not had to work on my birthday so I'm sharing my joy with you all!

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[The Haunted Towers: Front Gate]

A camera in front of the gates to the Haunted Towers twitched as it aimed toward the ground, from it pixels shot out to form Blake in mid air.

When Blake was fully formed, she fell to the ground, landing on her feet, however she was not used to the weight of the Poltergust, "Whoa!" Blake cried out as the Poltergust pulled her to the ground, causing her to land on her back with a grunt.

Blake groaned as she rolled onto her stomach and stood up, almost falling over again from the weight of the Poltergust.

"How does Ruby not fall over from the weight of this thing?" Blake muttered as she looked around the front gate, a large brick wall, large flowers in raised planters, and a solid metal gate. She was happy to take a few minutes to adjust to the weight of the Poltergust, "Maybe she's used to having heavy things on her back?"

Blake and Weiss had tried to lift Crescent Rose once, both of them were baffled at how heavy the weapon was, Yang still has a hard time believing Ruby is strong enough lift and swing Crescent Rose like it was made of foam, and yet she couldn't put any semblance of strength into a punch (Much less a decent form).

Once Blake adjusted to the weight of the Poltergust she pushed the gate open, closing it behind her as she looked around the area, not bothering to pull out the flashlight as her natural night vision as a Faunus was proving helpful at the moment.

She could see three potential paths through this place, a door to the building to her right, a path in front of her blocked by a metal gate with a pinwheel on the front with a dried up moat, and a path to her left that was covered by a comically large leaf.

At that moment the TS Blake had taken from Ruby went off, jumping slightly at the combination of her anticipating a ghost, and the sudden sound in the silence.

Reaching into her pocket Blake pulled out the TS and answered it, "Professor?" Blake asked.

"Alright Blake." E. Gadd said, "I know this is your first time giving the Poltergust a swing, but the sooner we can get things done here the better."

"I kinda figured." Blake said to herself, she did need this time to think but she had to agree with the professor, the sooner the Dark Moon was fixed the better.

"So… Are you ready to do some plumbing?" E. Gadd asked, causing Blake to blink.

"What?" Blake asked confused.

"Ahem…" Luigi's voice sounded, and the Professor stepped aside to let the plumber take the screen. "The Haunted Towers are-a powered by a generator that uses-a water."

"Huh, interesting." Blake said, this was the first time she had heard of a generator powered by water, everything she grew up with was Dust powered.

"Uhuh." Luigi said, "Water-a comes in, turns some water wheels, and-a both towers receive power. The professor was-a quite surprised to see something-a this advanced here already while-a powered by something other than-a Dust."

"I'll say." Blake said, "So something had happened to the Generator?"

"Maybe." Luigi said, "Can you-a see any water in the moat that should-a be near you?"

Blake quickly looked over to the pinwheel gate, "No, it's dried up." Blake said.

"Then-a you'll definitely need to-a fix something." Luigi said, "If-a the moats are dry then there isn't any-a power."

"Umm…" Blake started, "I'm a Huntress-in-Training and… Former White Fang activist, not a plumber."

"Don't-a worry." Luigi said, "Just-a give us a call when you-a get there. Oh it's-a the tower on the right of-a the gate by the way."

"Thanks." Blake said putting the DS away, readjusting the Poltergust, and stepping across the Courtyard and into the tower on the right.

Entering the tower, Blake immediately saw what she assumed was the Hydro Generator, as well as a Slammer staring at the machine.

Blake was quick on the draw as she pulled out the flashlight, however the Slammer to that moment to growl at her and float up through the roof in a surprisingly non-aggressive manner for the angry red spirit.

"Well…" Blake said looking down at the flashlight in her hands, "I guess I should keep this out even if I don't need to see in the dark."

Nonetheless with the ghost gone, Blake walked over to the generator and pulled out the TS and gave the call.

"I'm here, the Slammer that was in here is gone though." Blake said as Luigi appeared on screen, "I… Didn't catch it though."

"That's-a fine, let me a-see the generator." Luigi said, "Turn the TS around-a please."

Blake did so, turning on the flashlight so Luigi could see as she slowly moved the TS around the generator.

"Well, I've-a got good news, and-a bad news." Luigi said, prompting Blake to turn the TS back to her.

"Well?" Blake asked, "What's the problem?"

"The good-a news is that nothing seems to be wrong with the generator." Luigi said, "I guess-a ghosts still have-a some respect for this stuff. The bad-a news is that the water isn't a-flowing at all thanks to that goop."

"Is there something wrong with the pipes?" Blake asked, "Aside from the yellow gunk."

"Considering how dry-a things are? At worst a very bad-a clog, not even a leak is coming." Luigi said, "Most-a likely though, the water valve is-a just closed, like when you need to fix-a your sink, and you-a just need to open that up. It-a should flush things clean."

"So where is the water valve then?" Blake asked looking around the room.

"The roof of that-a tower." Luigi said, "Though with-a the power off you'll a need to-a go to the other tower to find a way up."

"How… How would that help?" Blake asked.

"The other towers don't-a have anything powered." Luigi explained, "Plus the towers are-a connected by bridges."

"Right, thanks." Blake said.

"Not a problem." Luigi said with a smile, "Oh, and-a don't forget to check-a the room for keys, no idea how-a many you need."

"I will." Blake said, then she noticed the underside of a spider crawling on the screen.

"AAAAH HA HA HA!" Luigi cried out as he bolted away from the screen.

Blake blinked at the moment before closing the TS, when she heard the sound of metal clinking on stone behind her.

Blake quickly spun around behind her, the flashlight at the ready, only to see nothing but the gleam of a key.

Blake slowly approached the key, charging the Strobulb and quickly flashed the area around the key with it.

The bright light stung her eyes for a moment, but nothing else was stunned.

"Note to self." Blake muttered, "Blink when using the Strobulb until I can find something to protect my eyes."

Blake picked up the key and left the room quickly, not wanting to be ambushed for grabbing it.

She failed to notice a small blue figure stumble out of its hiding place, not much bigger than the average person's head, a small leaf sticking out of its head.

The figure stumbled around for a moment before falling onto one of the empty water channels with a small cry.

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Key in hand, Blake hurried across the courtyard toward the other tower, grabbing the leaf and giving it a tug, only surprisingly the leaf held strong.

"I… Guess I could give the Poltergust a shot." Blake muttered putting the flashlight away, "May as well give it a feel outside of a fight."

With that Blake aimed the Poltergust at the leaf, catching and end with the vacuum and began pulling back, when she noticed the button was ready and flashing blue, pressing the button Blake was caught off guard by the sheer amount of force that the nozzle produced as it tore off the leaf.

"Whoa." Blake muttered looking at the Poltergust, "Maybe I should've taken Yang up on those workout sessions more often."

Blake always considered herself more of an agile fighter not a brute force fighter… Now it was coming to bite her, slightly.

"If we find Weiss and she wants to handle this thing… It is not gonna be pretty." Blake muttered to herself as she unlocked the door to the other tower and entered it.

Immediately she noticed a water channel in front of her, along with a door and a staircase on the other side.

"Alright, simple enough." Blake muttered as she walked over to the water channel and hopped down, taking note of a ladder on the side she just hopped down from.

She walked over to the other side of the channel and grabbed onto the ledge, and pulled herself up.

Or at least tried to.

She could barely get half her chest up when the weight of the Poltergust pulled her back down, and she fell with a hard drop.

"Ow." Blake groaned as she laid down, "Yang would get a kick out of this." Blake muttered as a moderately sized red toad hopped onto her stomach and croaked at her.

Brushing the toad off her, Blake stood up and began to climb the ladder back up to where she started, "Note to self, work on climbing with weight." Blake muttered as she looked around again when she noticed something.

It was faint, but if she focused she could barely, just barely, see the faded image of a door along a wall.

"What the…" Blake muttered as she squinted, "Wait, the Dark Light." Blake then aimed the Darklight device at where the door should be and in a few moments she could clearly see the glowing blue image of a door, and the Spirit Orbs that she quickly vacuumed up, restoring the door to its rightful plane of existence.

"So it was a hidden door." Blake muttered, "But… Why could I sense it? How could I see something that shouldn't even be visible?"

Shaking her head Blake stepped through the door and into a small greenhouse… Where she could, just as barely as the door, see the form of a Greenie hiding behind one of the metal shelves.

Taking advantage of this, Blake flashed the Strobulb, catching the Greenie by surprise and quickly capturing the ghost. Which caused two other Greenies hiding in the room to jump in surprise, reveal themselves fully, and grab shovels to protect themselves from the Strobulb.

Blake figured disarming those two wouldn't be easy while they held the shovels to their faces, however when the two got close to Blake, they removed the shovels from their faces and aimed the shovels to ramming positions.

Blake was very quick on the uptake and flashed the two ghosts with her light and quickly caught the two.

"Doors, ghosts…" Blake muttered as she pulled out the TS and made a call and E. Gadd appeared on screen.

"Something up Blake?" E. Gadd asked.

"Yeah." Blake said, "While I was in this place I could barely see in image of a door that was hidden by Spirit Orbs and just now I saw three Greenies despite the fact they seemed they should have been invisible."

"I can answer that one." Widow said as her head popped on screen.

"You can?" Blake asked as Widow nodded.

"Yep. It's because you're a Faunus." Widow said, "Your enhanced senses, specifically your enhanced eyesight, can pick up the faintest traces of spiritual presence."

E. Gadd and Blake raised an eyebrow at this.

"Well…" E. Gadd muttered, "I have heard some animals were most, paranormally sensitive than others, and my two Faunus assistants did seem to catch on to the Greenies shenanigans faster than the rest of us but…"

"You didn't realize it was because they're Faunus?" Blake asked.

"In all fairness." E. Gadd said, "Both of them are used to shenanigans like that."

Blake sighed, "So basically because I'm a Faunus I can… Sense ghosts?" Blake asked, "Then why couldn't I see anything in the Mansion trap?"

"Because those ghost's dispersed their bodies." E. Gadd explained, "These ghosts change their… let's say 'frequency' for lack of a better term, we can't see them, but a Faunus with better senses?"

"I get it." Blake said, "At least I won't be caught off guard too often then. Thanks Professor, Widow."

"You're welcome!" The two said as Blake hung up.

"Though that does beg the question what gave me that key." Blake muttered as she proceeded through the Greenhouse and out to the otherside where she climbed the Staircase to the second floor.

With only one door at the stairs, Blake entered it to find a small plant nursery.

With two massive venus flytraps in the middle that seemed to have glowing eyes, which caught Blake off guard.

A toad hopped across the room as if to demonstrate the fact these plants were VERY aware of things as they attempted to eat the toad, only for it to, almost casually, hop away as they bit at it. The toad dodged the attempts at its life effortlessly.

With the toad out of range, the two plants turned their attention to Blake.

"Oh boy." Blake muttered, she didn't have Gambol Shroud, she left it as E. Gadds Bunker because she didn't have space on her back for it and the Poltergust.

The closer Plant bit at Blake, and, despite being out of range, Blake instinctively jumped back and activated her Semblance, leaving a Shadow Clone where she was that simply stood there for a moment before fading.

The Real Blake however, fell over due to the weight of the Poltergust throwing off her balance, "I'm really going to need to train with weights." Blake muttered as she stood up.

At that moment there was a rustling sound catching the attention of the two plants as a head sized spiny burr rolled over to Blake, looking at the source, Blake saw another large burr growing again already.

"Is… Something helping me?" Blake muttered as she grabbed the large burr, tossed it in her hand to test the weight and then threw it at the fly trap.

The Plant snapped the burr down, only to suddenly choke on the burr and quickly wither away.

This in mind, Blake quickly grabbed a fresh burr and hurled it at the other plant, which also snapped the burr down and died.

With the two plants dead Blake noticed the vines they had growing from them had withered and died as well, revealing a key hidden in their vines.

Blake grabbed the key and looked around the room, wondering what helped her, "Um… Thank you." Blake called out before leaving the room.

She failed to notice another creature stepping out of hiding, this one even smaller than the previous blue one and was pure white with large red eyes.

The small creature let out a puff of purple smoke as it fled the room.

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Once Blake stepped out of the room, she saw a door that led outside and walked over to it, stopping as she stepped on the rug and noticing a lack of weight under her foot.

"Huh?" Blake hummed as she threw off the rug to reveal a large hole in the floor, "Great, now I can't trust rugs."

Stepping around the rug, Blake opened the door to the outside and stepped onto a skybridge between the two towers, and looking to her left, she was surprised to see a murder of crows all flying in a sphere.

"Thats… Odd." Blake muttered looking at the birds.

As if they had heard her, a few crows broke off from the sphere and began flying at her.

"Oh that's not good." Blake muttered, flashing the strobulb and causing some of them to crash, before sprinting across the bridge to the next door, quickly unlocking it and running inside.

Inside the small lab, Blake quickly locked eyes with the Slammer from before.

A quick flash from the Strobulb and a moments struggle later, the Slammer was caught. However backup emerged from the pipes as a trio of Greenies slid out of them, one of them doing a tuck and roll to grab a shovel while the other two didn't.

Blake quickly blinded the two weaponless Greenies, catching them before focusing on the remaining Greenie that was armed.

Letting the Greenie get close, Blake charged the Strobulb, she eventually got an opening when the Greenie raised it's shovel over it's head- Only to be blinded by the Strobulb for it's attempt and was quickly caught as well.

However, more back up emerged from the pipes as a pair of Slammers.

This time the fight proved to be an actual fight as the Slammer were quick to split up, forcing Blake to choose one or the other.

She blinded on of the Slammer, only to have to back off as the other slammed it's hands together to make a shockwave that would have sent her tumbling.

With this in mind, Blake stunned the Slammer that attacked her and planned to make quick work of the ghost while it's buddy was distracted, and once that ghost had recovered, Blake let go, stunned him again, and this time managed to catch both of them.

"I can see why Ruby tries to catch them all at once." Blake said as she took a deep breath, and looked around the room.

"So… How can I get up?" Blake muttered, then she noticed a small alcove in the side of the room, "Must be the stairwell."

Stepping into the presumed stairwell, Blake quickly noticed three things.

A rubbery ball like plant, the alcove was a dead end, and a wooden gate had sealed behind her.

"NO!" Blake cried out as she tried to move the gate.

The only thing she got however, was a rather fresh sheet of paper falling on her head.

Grabbing the paper, Blake noticed a message on it.

'Okay, so these purple, rubbery, ball plants are weird, they seem to convert any air that goes into them into something lighter than helium- it also is absorbed by the plant pretty quickly however so a constant airflow is needed to keep them filled enough to lift a person.

Attaching an air tank to one of these let me fly so that was fun- Until I bumped into some thorn, those balls are THIN so caution is advised.'

Blake looked behind her at the purple plant that was described in the note, then looked back at the note, "Thanks." Blake said as she placed the end of the Poltergust nozzle on the orb, vacuumed just long enough to attach it to the end, then switched to the blow function and began to inflate the plant.

After a few minutes of inflating, letting it drain to avoid thorns, and swinging her legs to move side to side, Blake managed to reach a door that lead outside on the next floor.

Once again, Blake failed to notice another of the small creatures, this one yellow with large ears, and a flower on its head instead of a leaf. The creature let out a hum before hopping down to the floor below.

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Upon reaching the outside of the second floor, Blake was took a moment to glance at the murder of crows, thankfully they seemed content to leave her alone at this point, so she continued up the stairs to the fifth floor of the tower, where she saw one pipe dripping the same yellow goo she saw at the Hydro Generator, and a Greenie hiding just above the wooden bucket collecting the goop.

A quick flash of the Strobulb and the Greenie was caught, and Blake went over to a large machine, which had a note taped to it.

'E. Gadd Strobulb activator installed due to ghost shenanigans, to activate weigh both pressure plates to expose sensors- Flash all sensors simultaneously.- E. Gadd.'

"Well this is needlessly complicated." Blake muttered, looking over to the bucket of goop, and then sighed.

Blake grabbed the bucket and carefully, placed the bucket on the pressure plate closest to the machine, then stood on the pressure plate further away, then charged the Strobulb and flashed the light.

All the lights came on and the machine began to hum, and water began leaking from the pipe joints as the viewport in front of the machine began to fill with water and pump through it.

Blake smiled, "Alright, looks like things are-" Blake was cut off by a noise coming from the machine.

The pipes began to swell as something large began to force its way through, Blake backed away, silently thankful the pipes weren't breaking from whatever was going through them.

Finally what was going through the pipes forced itself through an open end of the pipe that should have been cut off, revealing itself to be a large fat yellow ghost, which coughed up large globs of yellow goo.

"Disgusting." Blake muttered as she stunned the ghost with the Strobulb and began to vacuum it, where Blake made a sudden discovery.

This ghost, while it was being affected by the Strobulb, was too strong or dense to actually be moved by it, and it was intent on hocking more globs of goo at Blake, forcing her to strafe as she tried to vacuum it.

The ghost, a Gobber, was strong enough to withstand several charged pulls before it finally lost the fight and was sucked into the Poltergust, and the sudden loss of her 'anchor' caused Blake to fall on her back as the ghost was captured.

"Well." Blake muttered, "At least the water is on, so those water channels should be filling up."

With that Blake sat up and then froze as she saw a creature standing before her, she didn't freeze from fear, but rather confusion.

Standing in front of Blake was yet another of the creatures that had been helping her.

This one was bright red, had a long nose, and a flower on its head.

The small creature waved at Blake happily and let out a small 'He'o' sound.

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Professor E. Gadd's Ghost Dossiers.

Subject: Sir Weston

Born and raised among a nomadic group in Atlas, Sir Weston grew up rather used to the cold and was remarkably resourceful.

He made a living guiding Huntsmen, civilians, just about anyone through the rougher areas of Atlas alive, and though many people didn't like the idea of a Faunus guiding them through Atlas- Almost all of them preferred having someone help them through the cold of Atlas.

To aide in this, Sir Weston had actually noted down the locations of several large Grimm nests, patrol patterns, and even had setups to determine the weather in case the weather would prove too treacherous for traveling,

Though not many people walked to and from locations in Atlas, he did make a decent living, even offering coat he had made for his customers (Even if he made exceptions on payments for those who NEEDED those coats)

However this came to an end when the Atlas Military requested his assistance for an exploration of an Atlesian Mountain range.

For the first three days things were well, however an attack from a pack of Sabyr's things came to an end when the Atlesian Soldiers left Sir Weston for dead, against all odds Sir Weston survived the attack, having killed the Sabyr pack using his ice axe and a fallen soldiers gun, however he died in the mountains due to a combination of his injuries and the cold.

His Spirit rose and began tormenting any human wandering too close, often freezing them to death. During my encounter with him I only managed to capture him with the aid of one of my Faunus assistants and his Semblance allowing him to generate intense amounts of heat.

His Spirit does react aggressively, though not hostilely, to Faunus so it is not recommended to approach him at all.

Threat Level: High- Rises in Lower Temperatures, Lowers in Higher Temperatures.